Accommodation : About my place

Hello there,

Firstly, thank you for your commentaries on the old blog, I was quite happy to read them and  I'm sorry about the inconvenience of having to change the Internet address.

After 6 days in the youth hostel and few not interesting houses visited,  I found the flat I am now living in since 2 weeks. It's a huge sharehouse in Carlton, a 5mn walk from the CBD (Central Business District).

1 : My house 2: Victoria Market 3: Park where I run 4: My university 5: Federation square

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We are currently 16, among them a lot of different nationalities :

• 3 French, 1 Spanish, 1 English, 2 German, 1 Chilean, 1 Belgian, 1 Peruvian, 1 Brasilian, 2 Chinese, 1 South Korean, 1 Mongolian & 1 Australian

My "room"

Altough I've to share a small 6m² room with a bunk bed, I like having the possibility to talk English at any time and to discover new cultures, ways of life and to have fun to parties with them.

The house organisation consists of 2 women dormitories with each 4 and 6 beds, and 3 rooms with bunk beds in which 2 men sleep.

Claudio, 24 years old from Chile shares the room with me. He has 2 full time jobs as a cleaner so he's not often at home.

The boss

Jeff, the Australian owner of the house, is a mid-thirties relaxed dude who organises barbecues and road trip while always building new room to earn more money ! A$ 140 per week isn't very expensive to be so close of the center of the city but it is still a lot not to have your own room. He also adores his 9 year old cat, Léo, which himself loves, strangely, straws (and also mewing at night to wake us up) .

Australian Catholic Univeristy

My classes start on 21 of February, at Australian Catholic Univeristy campus, at a 10mn bike ride from my Carlton house

We (the 3 ESDES student in Melbourne and me) are planning to do a trip on the Great Ocean Road and to Tasmania for the 2 weeks of holiday we have left.

I personnaly start to settle and enjoy this new life far from home; cooking my own food (I'll do an article about it later), doing my laundry and handling my budget tightly.

Royal Botanic Garden

More to come, stay tuned !

• Australian Open
• Tram versus Bike
• My helpful cookbook